From pycyn@aol.com Fri Nov 23 16:29:33 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 24 Nov 2001 00:29:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 19814 invoked from network); 24 Nov 2001 00:29:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m9.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 24 Nov 2001 00:29:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-m09.mx.aol.com) (64.12.136.164) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 Nov 2001 00:29:33 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-m09.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.9.) id r.109.91e092b (2616) for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 19:29:28 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <109.91e092b.293043e8@aol.com> Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 19:29:28 EST Subject: Re: [lojban] tar(1) tao To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_109.91e092b.293043e8_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10535 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Profile: kaliputra X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 12254 --part1_109.91e092b.293043e8_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 11/23/2001 4:43:07 PM Central Standard Time, b.gohla@gmx.de writes: > i hope that makes it clearer, though i somehow doubt that it will seem funny > to you :) . > Well, any joke that gets explained becomes unfunny to the explained-to. I am still unclear as to how "tar(1)" expands. As near as I can get it, this says "the path that gives the complete address of a file is not the whole path" which misses a bit one way or the other, since either that is the complete path in that sense (and so perhaps the point is that that path is not Tao, but the words are wrong for that, and one would hope that even a linux programmer wouldn't think it was) or else the point is that what is wanted is something other than a file (reality, say) so that all of the linuxing is ultimately beside the point (probably true but not somehting one would expect a programmer to notice nor put in this way). --part1_109.91e092b.293043e8_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 11/23/2001 4:43:07 PM Central Standard Time, b.gohla@gmx.de writes:


i hope that makes it clearer, though i somehow doubt that it will seem funny
to you :) .


Well, any joke that gets explained becomes unfunny to the explained-to. I am still unclear as to how "tar(1)" expands.  As near as I can get it, this says "the path that gives the complete address of a file is not the whole path" which misses a bit one way or the other, since either that is the complete path in that sense (and so perhaps the point is that that path is not Tao, but the words are wrong for that, and one would hope that even a linux programmer wouldn't think it was) or else the point is that what is wanted is something other than a file (reality, say) so that all of the linuxing is ultimately beside the point (probably true but not somehting one would expect a programmer to notice nor put in this way). --part1_109.91e092b.293043e8_boundary--